Nighttime at the Palace of Fine Arts

Lately, we’ve been getting up well before sunrise, so I took advantage of it and tried for a few night shots. That was the same trip where we found the owls.

Palace of Fine Arts
Palace of Fine Arts

Built for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, The Palace of Fine Arts was  designed by Bernard Maybeck. It was built to house a large art exhibit that features works from the Renaissance to the modern.

Palace of Fine Arts
Rotunda
Palace of Fine Arts
Rotunda detail

The picture below shows the entry and ceiling of the rotunda. When it was first built, the ceiling had murals. The entire complex was replaced back in the 60s and the murals were lost.

Palace of Fine Arts
Entrance and ceiling of the rotunda

According to wiki:

Originally intended to only stand for the duration of the Exhibition, the colonnade and rotunda were not built of durable materials, and thus framed in wood and then covered with staff, a mixture of plaster and burlap-type fiber. As a result of the construction and vandalism, by the 1950s the simulated ruin was in fact a crumbling ruin.

Palace of Fine Arts
Columns and a redwood tree
Palace of Fine Arts
Palace of Fine Arts

In 2009, the Palace and lake underwent a massive restoration and seismic refitting. Since then, the area has been fully replanted and new walkways created.

Palace of Fine Arts
Columns
Palace of Fine Arts
Column detail


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